Monday, Jan. 05, 1925
Born. To Mr. and Mrs. John G. Baragwanath (Neysa McMein, famed magazine illustrator), a daughter (8 1/2 pounds); in Manhattan.
Engaged. John S. Martin, Literary Editor of TIME, the weekly news- magazine, to Miss Emilie Bushnell, Manhattan debutante.
Engaged. Roger Wethered, famed British amateur golfer, to Miss Elizabeth Bentinck, daughter of Lord
Charles Cavendish Bentinck; in London.
Married. Jan Masaryk, son of Thomas G. Masaryk (CzechoSlovakian President) and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Czecho-Slovakian Republic, to Mrs. Frances Crane Leatherbee, daughter of Charles C. Crane, onetime (1920-21) U. S. Minister to China; in Manhattan.
Died. Leon Bakst, 58, famed Russian painter and stage-designer; in Paris, after a long illness. (See Page 14).
Died. William Archer. 68, famed British dramatic critic; in London. He edited, expounded, translated the plays of Henrik Ibsen; himself wrote The Green Goddess, suave hair-raiser played by George Arliss in 1920.
Died. C. T. Collings, 76, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Standard Oil Co. of Kentucky; in Louisville.
Died. Daniel K. Lester, 86, engineer on the Monitor in its famed battle with the Merrimac in 1862; in Elizabeth, N. J., of pneumonia.
Died. Julianna Frances Hubbard, 95, mother of the late Elbert Hubbard, so-called "sage of East Aurora"; in Buffalo.